AMERICAN NAVY.
A SPEEDY DESTROYER. * Uy Telegrapb.-«Presß Association, -Copy right. NEW YORK, 15th. May. Another addition to the United States Navy is the destroyer Sterrett, launched at Quincy, Massachusetts. She is built for a speed of 29^ knots, and 'at the same time is expected to be able to keep the sea with a battle fleet in all weathers. [The Sterrett, a sister ship of the Burrows, Drayton, Mayrant, M'Call, Paulding, Perkins, Roe, Terry, and Washington (all now building) is a vessel of 742 tons displacement, with turbines of 13,600 indicated horse-power. The armament will consist of five four-tcen-pounder quick-firers, two machine guns, and two or three torpedo tubes. America has now thirty-six destroyers, built and building, none going further back than 1900.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1910, Page 5
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